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Intermediate Persian
A Grammar and Workbook
By Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi
Routledge – 2013 – 288 pages
Series: Grammar Workbooks
Routledge – 2013 – 288 pages
Series: Grammar Workbooks
Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume. Each of the fourteen units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge.There are additionally four appendices covering colloquial, polite, literary and journalistic styles.
Features include:
Intermediate Persian reviews many of the principle elements presented in its sister volume, Basic Persian, and introduces more advanced features and structures of the language. The two books form a compendium of the essentials of Persian grammar.
User-friendly and engaging, Intermediate Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study, making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for students and learners with some knowledge of the language.
"As with English, there's a lot more to Persian than meets the eye, or ear. It needs an all-round practitioner to teach the subtleties of this apparently easy but eloquently idiomatic and multidimensional tongue. Saeed Yousef fits the bill: an experienced teacher, a connoisseur of his own and several other languages, and a poet. His book is an essential vade mecum for all who have decided to make Persian their own." John Perry, Professor of Persian (Emeritus), The University of Chicago, USA
"Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook is an excellent complement to the core texbook in the classroom. Its structure is methodical, the units are easy to navigate, and the explanations are refreshingly low on jargon. The appendices (in particular the appendix that deals with the language of politeness, and the one on the Tehrani colloquial) are a great addition to an already comprehensive grammar." - Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Stanford University, USA
Introduction Unit 1: Indirect speech Unit 2: 'Self': emphatic, reflexive and possessive. Usages of khod. Objective pronouns Unit 3: Definite and indefinite, singular and plural. Review and expansion. Vocative case Unit 4: Persian equivalents of English modal verbs. More on subjunctive Unit 5: More on conditionals. If, unless; otherwise, as if Unit 6: Causative form. Optative mood. Past participle as verb. Deleting a similar verb. Regulars on the march Unit 7: Impersonal forms Unit 8: Position of verbs in the sentence. Verbs of state. Putting on and taking off clothes. To want, to be able to, to knowUnit 9: More on compound verbs. Ways to avoid passive Unit 10: Nouns, adjectives from verbs. Some prefixes and suffixes Unit 11: Exclamative form. More on adjectives/adverbs. Comparison of adjectives. Ezāfe Unit 12: Correlative conjunctions. More on subordinate clauses. A review of tā Unit 13: How to use digar, hanuz, ham, faghat/tanhā Unit 14: Remember/forget, arrange, change. Difference, meaning/'to mean' Appendix I: Language of politeness and courtesy Appendix II: Colloquial Persian/ Tehrāni Appendix III: Literary, poetical, archaic Appendix IV: Good, bad and ugly Persian. Common mistakes Key to Exercises. Glossary (includes all Persian simple verbs)
Saeed Yousef is Senior Lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. He is also a poet and has published books of literary criticism and translations.
Hayedeh Torabi was a Lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. She is a published writer, essayist and translator.
Name: Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi. Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume. Each of the fourteen units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and...
Categories: Language Teaching & Learning, Persian, Languages of the Middle East, Middle East Language, General Language Reference


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Many of the supermodels of her era -- Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell among them -- aren't gracing fashion spreads as often as they used to, but Kate Moss, the original anti-supermodel, is making more money than she did during her initial rush to fame in the early '90s; in fact, 2006 brought her Britain's highest accolade for a model, and though not all of her recent press has been desirable, she's certainly outlasted many of her peers.
Ah, yes. The bad press. After the breakup of her longterm relationship with Johnny Depp, Moss fell in with noted rock star/drug addict Pete Doherty, and before long, she was photographed snorting a line of cocaine. The pictures cost her some modeling gigs, but before long, she'd picked up 18 more, thus proving that there are definitely second acts in the lives of world-famous, super-rich models.
These days, with her drug charges dropped, Moss has resumed her modeling career fast and furious, and can be spotted doing shoots for Rimmel, Agent Provocateur, Virgin Mobile, Belstaff, Beymen, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Roberto Cavalli, Longchamp, Stella McCartney, Bulgari, Chanel, Nikon, David Yurman, Versace, Mia Shvili, Calvin Klein Jeans and Burberry. Men with a fetish for women built like young boys can rest easy -- we won't be seeing the last of Kate Moss anytime soon.
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The final press conference took place for the big heavyweight showdown on Saturday night in Wroclaw, Poland. WBC heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KOs) will defend his title against Polish hero and mandatory challenger Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KOs), a former two division champion who is looking to capture a third title crown. Over 40,000 fans, mosltly rooting for Adamek, are expected to pack the soccer stadium venue in Wroclaw.
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This lovely marathon route starts with a loop of the gorgeous Preston Park, and then takes in the best of the city centre including the Brighton Pavilion and fabulous stretches of coastal road. You can pound the streets whilst taking in panoramic views where the glorious South Downs meet the English Channel. The fabulous Finish is in Madeira Drive, just east of the brilliant Brighton Pier.
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This fantastic 10k event starts and finishes in London's beautiful St James' Park, and takes in some of London's legendary sights such as Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and St Paul's Cathedral. The event is organised by the team responsible for the Virgin London Marathon and even follows part of the course which is planned for the 2012 Olympic Marathon route. SPANA has places available, please email us for more details.
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This beautiful Half Marathon route takes in three of London's Royal Parks at their autumnal best. Starting in Hyde Park, you'll then run through Green Park, past Buckingham Palace and into St James' Park before heading onto the streets passing the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye. This event really isn't one to be missed. SPANA has places available, please email us for more details.
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Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day!
What's this, you ask? Well, Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD) was created back in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang [1] to celebrate the tireless efforts of community managers around the world. Community managers spend their day acting as a bridge between their company or brand and the world at large. At any given time you can find a community manager acting as the PR, marketing, sales, customer service and voice of a brand all at the same time. Today is the day we give them thanks.
Does your company have a community manager? Have you had a great experience from a brand thanks to their community manager? Today's their day, so thank them for the wonderful job that they're doing. Presents aren't required (although I'm sure they also wouldn't be turned away), but your thanks and appreciation is welcome.
Now, when I said that presents aren't required, I meant it, but we have two for all the community managers out there anyways.
First, we have the ebook "A Collection Of Community Management Advice." We teamed up with TheCommunityManager.com and issued an open survey of seven questions to community managers around the world. We got some great responses and put them together for anyone that's interested in learning what it takes to be a successful community manager. Inside, you can find advice from community managers from EventBrite, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Syracuse University, Edelman, The Community Roundtable, The U.S. Department of State and more.
You can click here to download and keep A Collection Of Community Management Advice [4].
Our second present is also packed with useful advice for community managers, but comes in the form of a video. We had a few friends at New Media Expo a few weeks ago answer a couple of community management questions. We asked some social media professionals "What makes a great community manager?" and who some of their favourite community managers were. Check out their answers:
So to all those community managers out there making their companies better 24/7, we say thank you!
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New York Firefighters Free Victim From Crash
Firefighters extricated one person from the scene of a crash in Mendon on July 25.
The Honeoye Falls Fire Department and Honeoye Falls-Mendon Ambulance were dispatched to a vehicle into a tree on Route 65 near Williams Road at 5:10 p.m.
Upon arrival they found a southbound pickup had struck a pole and then went air borne hitting a tree with the left front side of the vehicle. The lone occupant was trapped.
Honeoye Falls Fire Chief Paul Churnetski requested the Rush Fire Department's heavy rescue to the scene for the use of their extrication rams.
The Monroe County Medical Director, Dr. Jeremy Cushman, assisted the medics with patient care at the scene.
Firefighters removed the left door and pushed the dashboard up and off of the victim. The firewall was also pushed forward and extrication was completed in less than 30 minutes.
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West Little League coach teaches boys more than just football
"Did you have fun? If you didn't have fun, we don't need to be doing this!" — Coach Don Johnson.
When you first meet him, Don Johnson strikes you as more of a biker-type than a football coach. Arm tattoos, stocky build, grey, flowing hair swept back into a braided ponytail, and the ever-present biker shirts all help build that impression.
In the beginning, his players thought the same thing. "Just look at him," says lineman Nate Casey. "He looks like a mean biker guy. But when you get to know him, he's awesome!" Defensive end Sabestian Midkirk agrees with the assessment: "When I first saw him, I thought, 'Oh, this is gonna be tough!' But it turns out, he's really nice."
Johnson started coaching football for the West Panthers in the Ute Conference about 20 years ago, when his kids from his first marriage started playing. He worked with them through their little league days and then saw them enter and have success in the West High football program. Along the way, he coached at least one of local football's well-known Ngata brothers among the dozens of kids he's helped out.
But coach Johnson isn't just concerned with his kids succeeding on the field. His philosophy is simple: "You can't play football for me and miss school. I prefer scholastics over sports."
So, he faithfully calls the schools where his players attend, and makes sure they are all in class and getting good grades. If he has concerns, he talks to parents.
The players know there will be consequences for off the field slip-ups. "He worries about us outside of football," says safety Moises Ruiz. "He wants us to have the right priorities. We know he's going to talk to us and bench us if we have bad grades."
That's not to say he doesn't coach his kids to succeed on the field as well.
About four years ago, his boys from a second marriage hit football playing age. He had thought his football coaching days were over, but the West football program was short on volunteers. "They called me the afternoon of sign ups and asked me to coach," said Johnson. "I said 'Sure.'"
The group of kids he started with weren't the stars of the program. In fact, they were the "C" team. "These were the kids that none of the other coaches picked," said Johnson. "So I said, 'Send 'em to me. I'll take 'em.'" And he began to teach and work with the boys.
Boys like Nate Casey. His mom literally tricked him into going to football sign-ups. "I wasn't sure about football at the start," he said. "But Coach got me into it, and taught me everything."
"When Nate came," Johnson recalls, "he couldn't walk from the car to the field without stopping to catch his breath. Now, we call him 'Wheels.'"
And, there's the kid everyone calls "Moose." Coach Johnson talks about him with pride. "He came to America from Liberia. It's his first time ever playing football." But Johnson views Moose's situation not as a challenge, but as a team-building exercise. "We have to tell him where to go, and what to do, but he's really catching on." Johnson predicts Moose will play at the college level when he finishes his high school career.
With a lot of teaching and work, and with the help of what Johnson calls "a really great coaching staff," this group of C-team cast-offs has lost only one game over the past four years.
Along the way, he's made sure any boy that wanted to play was able to enjoy being a part of the team, even if his family couldn't afford it. He won't really admit that he's helped out, saying only "I've been blessed." But the boys know. "He's kind of like a dad," says Nate Casey. "He'll take care of you, help you pay for stuff. He treats you like a son."
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Linda D. Thompson
Linda D. Thompson | |
Mayor of the City of Harrisburg | |
In office January 4, 2010 – January 6, 2014 |
Preceded by | Stephen R. Reed |
Succeeded by | Eric R. Papenfuse |
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Political party | Democratic |
Residence | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
Linda Deliah Thompson (born c. 1961) is an American politician and former mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania serving from January 4, 2010, until January 6, 2014. Thompson was Harrisburg's first female and first black mayor.[1] On May 21, 2013 Thompson lost her bid for renomination, placing third in the Democratic Party primary behind Eric R. Papenfuse, who won the nomination, and City Controller Dan Miller, who placed second.[2]
Early life[edit]
Born and raised in Harrisburg, Thompson graduated from Harrisburg High School in 1979.[3] She went on to attend Howard University in Washington, DC where she received a B.S. in Communications. While in Washington, Thompson interned at the United States Department of Justice.
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In 2001, Thompson was elected to serve on the Harrisburg City Council. She was re-elected and appointed President of City Council in 2005. While on council, Thompson introduced legislation to sell off city-owned Western artifacts in order to raise money to pay down debts. She also amended the 2009 budget to include $100,000 to pay for a city-wide bulk trash pickup.[4] Thompson decided not to run for re-election in 2009 and instead ran for the Democratic nomination for Mayor. In the May primary, Thompson beat former mayor Stephen R. Reed by nearly 1,000 votes to win the election.[5] Despite her upset win in the Democratic primary, Thompson went on to win the general election by only about 800 votes against Republican challenger Nevin Mindlin.[6] Failure to reach an agreement on how to assign the budget and what should or should not be included as well as an Act 47 proposal by the state turned down by the City Council has led to the current crisis she is attempting to deal with.[7][8] On May 21, 2013, Thompson was defeated for re-nomination as mayor by Harrisburg businessman Eric Papenfuse, who won the primary, and City Controller Dan Miller, who placed second.[9]
In late March 2013 Mayor Thompson was discussing the privatization of city waste collection, she stated, "We're not opening up our flood gates for some scumbag that comes from Perry County who … comes here and wants to dump for free." The comment brought about a firestorm of backlash.[10]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Linda Thompson sworn in as Harrisburg mayor". www.pennlive.com. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/harrisburg_mayors_race_wins_th.html#incart_big-photo
- ^ Harrisburg Mayor-elect Linda Thompson is region's top newsmaker of the year Harrisburg Patriot-News, December 27, 2009. Accessed 2009.
- ^ About Linda Thompson, accessed 2009.
- ^ Election results could reshape Harrisburg Harrisburg Patriot-News, May 24, 2009. Accessed 2009.
- ^ Dauphin County Election Results for the General Election, Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Dauphin County Government, accessed 2009.
- ^ Mayor's Budget requests camera,picture copier ABC News 27, September 29, 2011. Accessed 2012.
- ^ [http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-harrisburg-emergency-declaration,0,1047970.story Governor Tom Corbett declares fiscal emergency for Harrisburg. Fox 43. Accessed 2012.
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- ^ Mayor Linda Thompson's 'scumbag' comment causes firestorm Harrisburg Patriot-News, March 28, 2013. Accessed 2013.


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Graphene Really May Be The Secret To Post-Silicon Chips
As we get nearer to the limits of silicon chip tech, the hunt for next-gen systems is speeding up. And wonder material graphene keeps popping up.
Silicon chip tech? Bah humbug. For the future of computer power, you may have to look no further than the graphite in the pencil in your desk drawer.
There's some really very clever innovation going on in semiconductor design, and for the next couple of generations of silicon chips this means we'll be able to jam still more transistors into an ever smaller space on their shiny gray surfaces. Our computers will get faster, and more powerful as a result. But no matter how clever we are at this task, there's a looming stop sign for silicon chips, based on the immutable laws of physics. Simultaneously we're beginning to realize that these simple, boring old boolean algebra-based chips are pretty limiting in their own way. So where next? University of California researchers have just served up an innovation of their own to help answer this, and it's all about wonder material graphene.
Graphene is remarkable in so many ways, from the randomness of its discovery (literally by peeling atom-thick layers of the stuff from a common lump of carbon graphite via some Scotch tape) to the extraordinary number of industries it could revolutionize.
But when it comes to semiconductor chip designs, graphene has a problem: It doesn't have an energy band gap. This is the property of a material that determines, for example, if it's a conductor (with a thin band gap), or a semiconductor (with a thicker and highly tuneable band gap). The band gap determines all sorts of things about how semiconductors work, including the way electricity flows through a transistor. There have been efforts to force graphene to have a band gap, and thus behave like a semiconductor, but these are said to have failed to produce a workable material in different ways.
What the new team, from the University of California, Riverside Bourn's College of Engineering has found, is a way to use the non-band gap properties of graphene to process information in a different way. They've discovered that if you let go of the need to have wholly on or wholly off transistors driving chips that use math based on ones and zeros, you can create "non-Boolean" chips from graphene.
The team looked at what's called the negative differential resistance behavior of field-effect transistors made of graphene. Resistance in an electronic device like a resistor typically means that when you increase the current running through the device, the voltage goes up too. The opposite happens in the graphene devices, which demonstrate dropped voltage as current goes up. The weird behavior actually lets you design strange new transistors that can process different voltage values instead of merely flipping between current and no current for the zeros and ones in a silicon chip.
Considering that graphene works like this on a nanoscopic scale, it could allow future engineers to design extremely tiny non-linear circuits that consume very low electrical power and which flip through the various states needed to perform calculations incredibly fast. No "ones" or "zeros" in sight. This is a lot like the way your brain works, remember. Good job we're working on new programming languages for this tech already, eh?
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I recently had an enquiry about getting access to NZ history sources when you are no longer at university. Looking around, there are lots of resources freely available on the internet (and I mean going beyond google and wikipedia). Many of these are provided by the National Library or university libraries, including us. Take a look at our NZ & Pacific Digital webpage to see some of the things produced locally.
Here are some other useful resources:
I hope that is of interest to past staff and students, schools, and any members of the public interested in New Zealand history.
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Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is a life threatening condition that may affect any critically ill patient. Little is known about the recognition and management of ACS in Germany.
A questionnaire was mailed to departments of surgery and anesthesia from German hospitals with more than 450 beds.
Replies (113) were received from 222 eligible hospitals (51%). Most respondents (95%) indicated that ACS plays a role in their clinical practice. Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is not measured at all by 26%, while it is routinely done by 30%. IAP is mostly (94%) assessed via the intra-vesical route. Of the respondents, 41% only measure IAP in patients expected to develop ACS; 64% states that a simpler, more standardized application of IAP measurement would lead to increased use in daily clinical practice.
German anesthesiologists and surgeons are familiar with ACS. However, approximately one fourth never measures IAP, and there is considerable uncertainty regarding which patients are at risk as well as how often IAP should be measured in them.
abdominal compartment syndrome; intra-abdominal pressure; intra-abdominal hypertension; intensive care unit; survey; questionnaire; bladder pressure; intra-vesical pressure measurement.Introduction
Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined as a persistent intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) of more than 20 mmHg accompanied by new organ dysfunction or failure. Left untreated, this condition has a high mortality rate [1-6]. Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is defined by a sustained or repeated pathological elevation of IAP to more than 12 mmHg and is considered a precursor of ACS [1]. Both IAH and ACS may occur in any patient population requiring intensive care [7,8].
According to surveys in Canada, Great Britain, Australasia, Belgium, China and the USA, detection and management of IAH and ACS are inconsistent [2,4,9-16]. Familiarity with the devastating consequences of increased IAP is abundant; however, the relevance of ACS in routine care varies. There is no agreement regarding the indication for IAP measurement and its timing [4]. Moreover, the threshold for decompression is still a matter of debate, as prospective randomized trials are missing [1,10].
Whether a similar level of uncertainty concerning the recognition and management of ACS exists in Germany, and whether this may be related to the techniques available in clinical routine is unknown. We also speculate that a simple, more standardized technique might help improve monitoring of IAP. As comparable studies have yet to be published, we performed this one using a questionnaire.
In 2006, a questionnaire (see Additional file 1) was sent to the head physicians of departments of surgery and anesthesia in hospitals with more than 450 beds in Germany. This 450-bed threshold was chosen because hospitals of this size are frequently teaching hospitals and serve as referral centers for smaller hospitals with elective or out-patient surgery.
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According to these criteria, the hospitals were selected via an internet-based hospital registry http://www.krankenhaus.net webcite. A total of 222 questionnaires were sent out. Recipients were asked to reply by fax within 2.5 months. No reminder was sent.
Statistical analysis was calculated using Statistical Package for Social Sciences 12.0.1 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Some questions could have more than one answer; in these cases, results were analyzed for multiple responses. The answers were analyzed with respect to training completed by unpaired non-parametric testing (Mann-Whitney U).
A total of 113 questionnaires were returned, four were incomplete or unreadable. Excluding these, 109 questionnaires were analyzed (49%). Participants stated they had completed training either in anesthesiology (49%) or surgery (51%). Their indicated years of clinical practice averaged 21.8 (range 7 to 40).
The majority (65%) stated ACS rarely plays a role in their clinical practice; 24% are concerned regularly; 6% often. Not more than 5% do not encounter this complication. Responding to 'Do you measure IAP?', 28 (26%) stated 'no'. Of those 81 respondents (73%) who measured IAP, 48 (59%) do so 'Only when clinically indicated'. Failure to establish an IAP measurement technique, cited by 22 respondents (28%, see Figure 1a, b), was the most common reason for not measuring it. The method indicated as most often used for IAP assessment was the measurement of intra-vesical pressure (bladder pressure measurement; 94%, multiple answers possible). In the other cases, a trans-gastric technique was reported. Multiple answers were possible for the question 'In which patients do you measure IAP?'. Respondents most often (41%) answered that measurement is only performed in patients thought likely to develop ACS (Figure 2).
Figure 1. Reasons for not measuring IAP and frequency of IAP measurements. (a) Stated reasons for not measuring IAP. Out of 109 respondents, 28 denied regularly measuring IAP due to the reasons presented (% of respondents, multiple answers; question 2). (b) Frequency of IAP measurements among those who stated to measure IAP. Of the 109 respondents, 81 elaborated on when to measure IAP (% of respondents, multiple answers; question 2).
Figure 2. Patient groups which are regularly IAP monitored. Eighty-one stated their criteria regarding in which kind of patients IAP should be measured (% of respondents, multiple answers; question 4).
The majority (86%) of respondents stated that the decision to surgically decompress is rather a matter of beginning organ dysfunction than of exceeding pressure thresholds (Figure 3). A simpler, more standardized application would lead to an increased use in 70 of 104 respondents (67%). Of the 26 participants not measuring IAP, even 77% think a simplified technique would improve acceptance.
Figure 3. Critical IAH threshold calling for surgical decompression dependent on organ function and dysfunction. Ninety-four respondents stated their criteria concerning when performing decompressive laparotomy dependend on IAP and organ dysfunction (% of respondents, multiple answers; question 5)
Consensus definitions concerning ACS have been published in order to provide a basis for current treatment [1,3,8]. Prospective randomized trials are missing which is probably due to the variable incidence (1% to 15%), rapid progression and the disease pattern [17-19]. This situation leaves some questions open. Furthermore, the overall purpose of this survey was to study the current status in Germany.
Awareness of ACS and performance of IAP measurements
According to our results, ACS plays a role in 95% of participants' clinical practice. About one third encounter ACS regularly or often. This is comparable to other countries where familiarity with ACS reportedly ranges from 73% to 99% of respondents (Table 1). More than one third of respondents from all over the world diagnose at least five cases of ACS each year. Although knowledge regarding ACS seems abundant, about one fourth of respondents claim they never measure IAP. In other surveys, the non-measuring rate was mostly comparable (range 2% to 80%; Table 1). How those participants (who do not measure IAP) establish the diagnosis of ACS remains unclear. Clinical examination of the abdomen has a sensitivity of only 50% to 60% which is similar to a coin toss [20-22]. Malbrain et al. demonstrated that also the abdominal perimeter is an inaccurate way for assessing increasing IAP [23].
Table 1. Comparison between results of current surveys related to IAH and ACS
Among participants measuring IAP, the majority (59%) stated they perform measurements only if clinically indicated; in contrast, 30% advocate a routine measurement one to six times per day (Figure 1b). This appears to correlate with respondents tending to perform measurements mostly in patients expected to develop ACS (40%).
IAP measurement methods
In accordance with all formerly published surveys, IAP measurement via the bladder is the most frequently used technique also in Germany (Table 1). Of the respondents, 70% stated that a simpler, more standardized technique would be used more often to assess IAP. This impression is supported by the finding that some respondents refuse bladder pressure measurement because the technique may 'not be established' or appears 'too complex in technical regards'. Both points of criticism appear unjustified. Several studies in humans as well as in animals proved replicability and reliability of the method [24,25]. Further, the measurement techniques have become increasingly simple and user-friendly over the last years, making it no longer possible to speak of an overly complicated IAP measurement technique. For example, the manometer technique, published by Harrahill in 1998 [26] and perfected by Lee [27], offers a maximum simplification of the bladder pressure test and requires no additional instruments other than a ruler and trans-urethral catheter. Using this principle, even commercially available measurement systems have been developed (for example Foleymanometer, Holtech® medical, Charlottenlund, Denmark). Nevertheless, a minimum amount of training for personnel is required to avoid certain pitfalls. This includes, for example, ruling out a neurogenic or organic bladder dysfunction, ensuring sufficient relaxation of the local abdominal muscles, and the correct steady positioning of the patient with a continuous transparent reference point for the measurement of pressure equivalents.
Other indirect methods such as intra-gastric and intra-rectal pressure measurements rather constitute an exception than the rule and were stated to be performed by no more than 6% of respondents (Table 1). This is noteworthy in so far as different commercially available measurement systems, meanwhile, have been developed which allow to continuously monitor IAP levels via the stomach (for example CiMON®, Pulsion® Medical Systems, Munich, Germany or 'IAP catheter', Spiegelberg®, Hamburg, Germany). Continuous measurement systems are able to minimize health care providers' workload as well as ensure non-stop observation of especially at risk patients. Pressure transducers, which are directly inserted into the abdomen, even more precisely reflect the IAP. Further information with respect to direct and indirect IAP measurement methods, as well as to continuous and intermittent techniques can be found on excellent reviews which have been published by Malbrain [28] and De Keulenaer [29].
If various measurement procedures are available, the illness and the dynamic of possibly increasing abdominal pressure should be considered. The higher the IAP, and respectively, the more quickly it is increasing, the sooner continuous pressure monitoring should be considered in order to begin the necessary therapeutic procedures, including invasive ones, in time. Apparently, it is of utmost importance that IAP be quantified when, as recommended by the World Society on the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS), certain risk factors are present (Figure 2; Table 2). Using appropriate therapy algorithms, it should thereby become possible to react earlier and assertively enough to IAH that an ACS case does not even arise.
IAP thresholds
Although the WSACS published definitions more than 5 years ago [3], there is still a remarkable lack of knowledge concerning the recommended threshold values in relation to IAH and ACS (Table 1). On the one hand, this might be caused by a lack of awareness of current literature; on the other, this might be influenced by personal experience, which might differ from published results and consensus. While the values gathered in the course of the surveys were partially over the WSACS limits for adults, the majority of pediatricians reported much lower values. This reflects the clinical impression that IAH and ACS can appear at much lower levels of abdominal pressure in children. In the framework of the 5th WSACS World Congress 2011 and using the data available at that time, Ejike et al. correctly demanded the establishment of pediatric limits (IAH: IAP > 10 mmHg, ACS: IAH + new organ dysfunction) (KT et al., unpublished work) [30].
Surgical therapy options
Most of our respondents decide to decompress the abdomen based on the presence of organ dysfunction or failure in combination with IAH (Figure 3). The attitude towards the critical threshold (> 20 mmHg or > 25 mmHg) divides respondents into two groups of similar size (39% vs 46%). This is comparable to the surveys done by Ravishankar and Mayberry ([4,9], Table 1). One reason may be the lack of evidence as prospective outcome studies are missing and the mortality rate of ACS has remained high despite decompression [18,31]. Tiwari describes a reluctance among surgeons to operate patients with ACS [2]. They probably try to avoid complications associated with decompression and the management of an open abdomen as described by Kirkpatrick et al. in their survey of Canadian surgeons [10]. This restraint might arise from reports about sudden deaths following surgical decompression in patients suffering from IAH and ACS [32-34]. Fatal outcome in these patients might be related to fatal pulmonary embolism caused by venous stasis in the splanchnic venous capacitance pool during IAH/ACS. It has also been stated that lethal acute circulatory collapses and asystolia after decompression might be caused by the release of anaerobic metabolic products and inflammatory mediators from prior less perfused tissues (ischemia-reperfusion syndrome [35,36]). This pathogenesis, however, is not generally accepted.
Cheatham and Safcsak have demonstrated that routinely monitoring adult patients at risk and a stage-by-stage-guided therapy algorithm comprising medical as well as surgical options may considerably reduce patient mortality by up to 50% [37]. This also supports not delaying decompression when necessary. Respondents as well as participants in other surveys are familiar with decompressive laparotomy and more or less perform this escalated therapy option partly in combination with open-abdomen management often (Table 1). In this connection, it should be noted that, in all studies, the majority of physicians interviewed work in tertiary care hospitals and high-level ICUs. To a lesser degree, these results reflect circumstances found in basic and regular care hospitals where recognition and standardized therapy of IAH and ACS seem to lead a miserable existence.
Surveys are known to have limitations as results represent personal assessment rather than objective data. A limitation might be that the survey was only sent to the heads of departments and not to section members. It can be argued that the majority of head physicians carry out more administrative than clinical-curative tasks; meaning, they may not be sufficiently informed about current developments in the treatment of IAH and ACS which could have had a negative impact on the validity of the survey results. On the other hand, it appears less likely that establishment of IAP measurements nor therapeutic procedures, including decompressive laparotomies, are carried out in a department without the decision of the head of the department to do so. As a result, head physicians, even if less involved in everyday clinical work, are considered to be sufficiently knowledgeable to answer the questions posed.
A further limitation is that participants might have simply used their gut feeling instead of clinical databanks to answer the questions. Since doing so would cause more work, it must be assumed that the response rate would have been worse (range of response rates of published IAP surveys: 6% to 90%; Table 3). Therefore, it was decided not to perform a databank survey. The results, which are, to a great extent, identical to the available literature, appear not to express an undue bias (Table 1).
Table 3. Overview and structural description of current surveys related to IAH and ACS
It was decided to send questionnaires to intensive care units of surgical and anesthesiological departments. Due to the current structure in Germany, patients with IAH/ACS are predominantly placed in departments of surgery and anesthesiology and by far less often present in internal departments.
However, the data display an attitude towards the management of ACS in Germany, thereby, demonstrating a lack of consensus and certainty. This might help guide future studies with a multi-center prospective randomized approach.
ACS is known among German anesthesiologists and surgeons, and both groups do not differ in their attitude towards this complication. Measurement of bladder pressure appears to be the current standard to assess IAP. However, about one fourth of responding physicians in Germany never measure IAP, and there is considerable uncertainty about which patients are at risk of developing ACS and how often IAP should be measured. Regarding the IAP threshold for decompression (20 or 25 mmHg), respondents remain undecided. These findings lead to the overall impression that recognition and management of IAH or ACS need to be further established in Germany.
ACS: abdominal compartment syndrome; IAH: intra-abdominal hypertension; IAP: intra-abdominal pressure; WSACS: World Society on the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.
Competing interests
In addition to his assistant professorship at the Technical University of Aachen (Germany), Alexander Schachtrupp is head of the Department of Medical Sciences at B. Braun Melsungen in Germany. B. Braun does not distribute any medical devices or products concerning the diagnosis and/or treatment of IAH or ACS. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
Literature research was done by JO, TK and AS. Data collection was mainly performed by JO and AS. The article was written by TK, JO and AS and reviewed by GS, JH and AS. PKS delivered linguistic advice and substantially revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors would like to thank the directors of the departments of surgery and anesthesia who sent in their replies. We would also like to thank Dawn Nichols for linguistic advice. The charges on the publication of this article were taken on by meas of the promotion programme "Open access publishing" by the German research council (Deutsche Forshungsgemeinschaft).
This article has been published as part of Annals of Intensive Care Volume 2 Supplement 1, 2012: Diagnosis and management of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/supplements/2/S1
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Photo autocopy from SD card
Copying photos from the SD card of my camera is a very common task. And always the same pattern. Take the card out of the camera, put it into the sd card reader, wait for the automount popup, browse to the picture directory, select all images, cut all images, browse to my photo directory, create a new folder, name the folder, move to the folder, paste the pictures into it, wait for the finished job.
Sound boring? Sure, it is!
Now, how to make this one a little smarter? Maybe scripting some of those steps is a cool idea. So how would this work in a perfect world?
The idea
Taking the SD card out of the camera and putting it into the SD card reader does not seem to be easily scripted, that's why I focused on the other steps ;-). Okay, I'd like to put the card into the reader, just wait for all the images to be moved and then put the card back into the camera.
But how to reach this goal? Maybe you're interested in my solution…
One thing we need to know: When hotplugging devices to my Ubuntu system the kernel tells the udev daemon about that new device. The kernel informs the udev daemon about a lot of different events, like adding and removing hardware, volumes and so on. But how to get closer to these events?
Digging into udev events
There is an interesting tool named udevadm
which can be used to monitor the incoming events. Let's see which events are fired when I put the SD card into the card reader:
> udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent KERNEL[1316365297.577602] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368 (mmc) KERNEL[1316365297.578091] add /devices/virtual/bdi/179:0 (bdi) UDEV [1316365297.579008] add /devices/virtual/bdi/179:0 (bdi) UDEV [1316365297.579058] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368 (mmc) KERNEL[1316365297.580552] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0 (block) KERNEL[1316365297.580644] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 (block) UDEV [1316365297.617556] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0 (block) UDEV [1316365298.314850] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 (block) |
These are a lot of of events, but there is only one needed, so it is needed to choose the correct one. One way would be to try one event after each other, but there is a better way: Now one need to know that it is possible to react on specific events and run some script every time such an event is received. The script is executed and has access to the whole environment which is populated with some useful information.
To get a little more information create a matching udev rule and a small script which appends the whole environment to a temporary dump file:
Store the udev rule in the rules directory /etc/udev/rules.d/99-sd-autocopy.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", RUN="/usr/local/bin/sd-autocopy" |
The udev daemon should recognize that rule immediately. If a restart of the udev daemon might help.
Now create the script to dump the environment at the path specified in the udev rule /usr/local/bin/sd-autocopy
#!/bin/bash echo ======================== >> /tmp/test env >> /tmp/test |
Then make the script executable:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sd-autocopy |
Now simply plug the SD card of your choice into your SD card reader and have a look at the contents of /tmp/test afterwards. The file should contain information of several events where the single events are separated by the lines of equal sings.
Having these events recorded it is now possible to grab the important information for the script. When looking at the single events we see that there is one ADD
event for the added disk and one ADD
event for each partition. We are only interested in the partition events and need the first partition of the device, so add the following conditions to the udev rule:
ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", ENV{UDISKS_PARTITION_NUMBER}=="1" |
which should result in this rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", ENV{UDISKS_PARTITION_NUMBER}=="1", RUN="/usr/local/bin/sd-autocopy" |
After changing the rule, deleting the /tmp/test
file and an additional test we can see that the test sd-autocopy script gets only called with the correct event. This event comes with the following environment variables:
DEVTYPE=partition SUBSYSTEM=block ID_SERIAL=0x000006d4 ID_FS_UUID=F84E-1690 UDISKS_PARTITION_OFFSET=4194304 DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 UDISKS_PARTITION_NUMBER=1 ID_FS_VERSION=FAT32 MINOR=1 ACTION=add PWD=/ UDISKS_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT_OFFSET=0 ID_FS_TYPE=vfat ID_NAME=SDC MAJOR=179 DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SDC_0x000006d4-part1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:15:00.2-part1 /dev/disk/by-uuid/F84E-1690 DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p1 SHLVL=1 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=dos UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0 UDISKS_PARTITION_SIZE=16130244608 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=F84E-1690 UDISKS_PARTITION_SCHEME=mbr UDISKS_PARTITION_TYPE=0x0c UDISKS_PARTITION=1 UDISKS_PARTITION_SLAVE=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:b368/block/mmcblk0 ID_PATH=pci-0000:15:00.2 SEQNUM=2825 _=/usr/bin/env |
The sd-autocopy script
With these information the SD card can be identified. It will use the ID_SERIAL
and DEVNAME
environment variables in the script. Now I identified the tasks which need to be performed by the sd-autocopy script:
- Verify the sd card to be a handled one
- Mount the partition
- Find all images on the partition
- Create a folder for each date in a target base path
- Move the files to the date specific folder
- Unmount the partition
The script is placed in /usr/local/bin/sd-autocopy
(just remove the testing code from that file).
And here is the finished script:
#!/bin/bash # # sd-autocopy - Copies/Moves images automatically from inserted media # # Copyright (c) 2011 Lars Michelsen <email@example.com> # # License: # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as # published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. # But this in curly braces and detach the whole block to background # for not blocking udev during copying. { USER=lm TARGET=/home/$USER/Pictures/Photos HANDLED_SERIALS="0x000006d4" MOUNT=/mnt/sd-autocopy FILE_MATCH=".*\.(jpg|cr2)$" TRANSFER=mv # END OF CONFIGURATION ######################################################## # DEBUG: # To enable debugging without udev events uncomment the lines below #ID_SERIAL=0x000006d4 #DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p1 # Catch unset but needed vars - terminate script if [ -z "$ID_SERIAL" ] || [ -z "$DEVNAME" ]; then exit 1 fi if ! echo "$HANDLED_SERIALS" | grep $ID_SERIAL >/dev/null 2>&1; then logger -t sd-autocopy "Got unhandled serial, skipping (Serial: $ID_SERIAL)" exit 1 fi logger -t sd-autocopy "Got handled serial ($ID_SERIAL), moving images..." if [ ! -d "$MOUNT" ]; then mkdir -p "$MOUNT" fi mount $DEVNAME "$MOUNT" LINES=$(find "$MOUNT" -regextype posix-egrep -iregex "$FILE_MATCH" -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td_%p\n") DATES=$(echo "$LINES" | cut -d_ -f1 | uniq) # First create the directories when missing for DATE in $DATES; do echo $DATE mkdir -p "$TARGET/$DATE" done # Move the images NUM=0 for LINE in $LINES; do DATE=${LINE%%_*} FILE=${LINE#*_} logger -t sd-autocopy "Moving $FILE to $TARGET/$DATE" $TRANSFER "$FILE" "$TARGET/$DATE" NUM=$(($NUM+1)) done umount $DEVNAME # Fix the permissions for all directories recursive where # files have been copied/moved to for DATE in $DATES; do chown -R $USER.$USER "$TARGET/$DATE" done logger -t sd-autocopy "Finished job. Moved $NUM images." } & exit 0 |
The script can easily be extended by modifying the first few lines:
USER=lm TARGET=/home/$USER/Pictures/Photos HANDLED_SERIALS="0x000006d4" MOUNT=/mnt/sd-autocopy FILE_MATCH=".*\.(jpg|cr2)$" # Move or copy - or something different TRANSFER=mv |
is needed a) for gathering the target directory and b) for owning the copied files.TARGET
holds the path to the target base directory.HANDLED_SERIALS
holds a list of space separated serial numbers of the SD cards to use the script for.MOUNT
contains the mountpoint for the first partition on the SD card.FILE_MATCH
is the matching regex for the files to be copied. It applies to the whole path of the files.TRANSFER
defines the transfer mode. For example "mv" to move the files or "cp" to copy them.
The script sends it's log entries to syslog, so you might want to have a look at the syslog files for debugging.
Btw. the script is not limited to handling images. By just modifying the FILE_MATCH
pattern it is possible to copy other filetypes.
06:00 on March 17th, 2013Thank you, thank you, Lars! I just KNEW someone had already done this, and I was positive if I found it, it would be a better bash script than I could ever write!
I am going to use this to automate workflow for my Nikon DSLR. My goal is to use this script to trigger a file copy and launch a photo browser to do a quick triage upon SD card import and cull any bad photos. Another script will archive the Camera Originals (RAW files) in a safe read-only share, and then have the RAWs and JPGs split to different working shares, so my wife can manage JPGs in iPhoto on her Mac, while I use RAWs in LightRoom, and everything that we edit gets archived on a network drive.
Thanks again for sharing your script publicly!
22:39 on March 31st, 2013thank you for this beautiful script, it almost does what I need. Just a few adjustment and combined with a Raspberry Pi it'll be a foto-autocopystation on my wedding in may!
15:20 on April 13th, 2013Thank you for sharing interesting ideas! I used some parts of your script and had a thought of copy the files from my camera's memcard to one location and rename them there based on EXIF, and copy the AVCHD from the camcorder's memcard to another location and then automatically convert to mp4-files. However, I interpreted your article as if every SD card had a unique ID_SERIAL, but in my logs, both my memcards have the same ID_SERIAL, as if it was read from the cardreader. Hopefully I can identify them by ID_FS_LABEL instead, but I was curious about your opinion.
Thank you! /Fredrik
04:15 on April 19th, 2013Thanks for your script — I've got this working fine, but I've been trying to provide some feedback to show that the files have been copied and the card is safe to remove. I'm trying to use matedialog (running Linux Mint), which works fine when the script is run from a terminal, but the notification won't display when the script is run from udev. I thought it might have something to do with udev killing long-running processes, but I'm not sure whether there's a workaround. Any ideas?
19:53 on January 22nd, 2014hi Lars, great … the thing is I don't have a linux box for this … any chance you know how to do it in windows 7 ? … been trying to find the event for the sd insertion but I don't seem to able to find it … i could then attach the event to a task and the job would be done thanks Luca
00:27 on May 27th, 2014Hi Lars, Your script is awesome. Here are some bits I changed:
Included DEVNAME= in the user-part of the script, just because
Changed TRANSFER="rsync -aq -t": What it does is skipping already existing files and preserving the time stamp (both crucial if you ask me), plus you maintain the original files on the original SD card
Hardening RPi due to ON/OFF scenario. There is couple of things you can do, e.g. adding '/usr/bin/touch /forcefsck' to /etc/rc.local to enforce fsck-checks. There are more tweaks, check here: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot......ry-pi.html
My setup is an ordinary RPi model B with 32GB SD card and Raspbian installed. Source is a Sony mirrorless camera writing to a micro SD card, which will be transferred by a mini usb dongle to the RPi SD card. This configuration is working for me, but I will run further tests and will review if any changes occur.
Best regards, LS
00:25 on June 2nd, 2014Hello,
I added another small feature:
- Automatic shutdown
The lazy way is to enable 'pi' to shutdown, using 'sudo chmod 4755 /sbin/shutdown' Then, add some line like 'shutdown -h 1 &', e.g. before the last line 'logger -t … ' This basically does the job very well, once the system is halted, my Micro-SD adapter's blue-LED is stopped, hence I can turn the box safely off and remove the adapter. This makes a very nice finish if you are without a keyboard and monitor, like my holiday setup.
23:23 on January 25th, 2015really big thanks to you and this very nice script. I am new in linux but I am finding it the best because guys like you did things like you and save my time and energy in this full task life
thanks a lot.. owe you beer
10:13 on March 21st, 2015Hello,
Great idea, great script, great open source spirit !!!
Works on x86/x64 with Ubunutu and Ubuntu based distros. Unfortunately, udevadm monitor command can't see the SD add event in the reader on a Raspberry pi model B (tested with 3 SD card readers which all works on x86/x64 with Ubunutu and Ubuntu based distros, Windows 7 and 8.1, and OSX on macbook pro and iMac)
As the event are not triggered, script can't be launched
Does someone have an idea to help me ?
My aim is to have a box for back up on my NAS photos and videos from SD card, but also from USB devices such as phones or USB sticks
Thanks for your help !
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Syracuse Chiefs (66-78, 11th in International League)
Best Hitter: SS Zach Walters (.253 BA, 29 HR, 77 RBI, 69 R)
Best Pitcher: RHP Tanner Roark (9-3, 3.15 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, 105.2 IP)
Biggest Surprise: RHP Caleb Clay (5-2, 2.49 ERA, 51 SO, 83.0 IP)
Zach Walters could double as the biggest surprise out of the Nats' Triple-A affiliate this season, as his 29 homers were more than he hit combined in his previous three years as a minor leaguer. He was far and away the Chiefs' best power hitter and earned himself a September call-up along the way. He's only 23 years old, so there's some potential left for him to tap into. But with 134 strikeouts and only 20 walks, plus a hideous 38 defensive errors in 134 games, he's far from a finished product. For comparison's sake, those 38 errors are equal to the next three highest totals recorded by Syracuse players this season.
Tanner Roark is another familiar name among Nats fans after he was called up in early August. The 26-year-old has been a nice surprise already at the major league level and will get an opportunity to start this weekend. Through 33 games this season at Syracuse – including 11 starts – Roark flashed versatility as a reliever and starting pitcher. He doesn't strike a ton of guys out, but has solid command and he can dial his fastball up to the mid-90s. Davey Johnson recently said he likes how Roark "goes about his business" and the rookie is certainly in the mix for a rotation spot next season for the Nats.
Signed in the offseason as a free agent, Caleb Clay put together his best season as a minor league pitcher, which is notable considering he's been in the minors since 2007. Clay split time at Harrisburg and Syracuse, but was even more effective in Triple-A. Clay's 2.49 ERA with the Chiefs stands out, as does his 14 walks in 83 innings. Clay was a former first round pick and still has the talent, perhaps his resurgence could put him on the doorstep of call-up next year. At 25 he's still yet to make his MLB debut.
Harrisburg Senators (77-65, 2nd in Eastern League)
Best Hitter: OF Steven Souza, Jr. (.300 BA, 15 HR, 44 RBI, 20 SB)
Best Pitcher: RHP Taylor Jordan (7-0, 0.83 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 54.0 IP)
Biggest Surprise: RHP Matt Swynenberg (4-0, 3.16 ERA, 58 SO, 74.0 IP)
Steven Souza's season was truncated due to injury, so the numbers you see above were in only 77 games. Souza was still able to put up impressive stats and showed his .297 average in 2012 was no fluke. Before last season Souza never hit above .240 in a minor league season and that was always the knock on his MLB prospects. Now as a .300 hitter the power numbers look even more enticing and should certainly put him in Syracuse next year. He has the best combination of power and speed of any player in the Nats' system.
Nathan Karns could have easily been the Senators' pitcher of the year, and he has a good shot to earn the nod from the Nationals when they release their picks later this month. But the stretch Jordan had in Double-A was exceptional and helped him earn a call-up to Washington in June. Jordan held a 0.83 ERA through nine games, and took the win in seven of them. After having Tommy John surgery in 2011, Jordan returned a dominant minor league pitcher in his first full season back, and fared well at the MLB level as well. Through nine games with the Nats he posted a 3.66 ERA and is a frontrunner for the fifth rotation spot in spring training at this point.
Matt Swynenberg has been in the Nats' system since 2009 after joining the organization as a 28th round pick. This year, however, he took a major leap at Harrisburg and established himself as an elite relief pitcher at the Double-A level. He appeared in the fourth most games of any Senators' pitcher and held a 3.16 ERA through 74 total innings. One number that stands out in analyzing exactly how he's improved is his groundball rate. This year his GO/AO was 1.74 compared to 1.52 the season before.
Potomac Nationals (84-55, 1st in Carolina League)
Best Hitter: CF Michael Taylor (.263 BA, 87 RBI, 79 R, 51 SB)
Best Pitcher: RHP Blake Schwartz (11-4, 2.65 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 132.2 IP)
Biggest Surprise: RHP Taylor Hill (6-2, 2.99 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, 84.1 IP)
Michael Taylor, 23, still leaves much to be desired with his batting average and ability to get on base, but he was a major reason for the P-Nats first place finish in the Carolina League. He led Potomac in games played (133), doubles (41) and RBI, pacing them as a middle of the order bat for much of the season. Taylor is big at 6'4" and flashed elite speed this year with 51 stolen bases. He's always been a threat on the base paths, but this season he stole more bags than he did in his previous three professional seasons combined. With his power numbers also up from 2012, Taylor is showing a solid career progression that makes you wonder what his ceiling will eventually be.
Potomac enjoyed great pitching all year from a wide group of contributors, but Blake Schwartz gets the nod with a 2.65 ERA and by far the most amount of innings pitched for the P-Nats. Schwartz, 23, cut his ERA down by nearly a full run this season and was promoted from Hagerstown after just four games. In Potomac he made 23 starts and walked just 26 batters. The 2012 17th round pick should get a shot at Double-A next year.
Taylor Hill spent most of his time in Potomac, but also made stops in Harrisburg and Syracuse in his 2013 season. For the P-Nats he was one of their most reliable starters with a 2.99 ERA through 84 1/3 innings. He doesn't strike out a ton of batters, but keeps his walks low and pitches deep into games. Hill had a 4.91 ERA in the minors last season, cutting that down to 2.95 this year. He improved significantly and should be back in Syracuse for the beginning of 2014.
Hagerstown Suns (80-57, 3rd in South Atlantic League)
Best Hitter: 2B Tony Renda (.294 BA, 99 R, 51 RBI, 68/65 BB/SO)
Best Pitcher: LHP Brett Mooneyham (10-3, 1.94 ERA, 79 SO, 93.0 IP)
Biggest Surprise: OF Brandon Miller (.243 BA, 18 HR, 72 RBI, 62 R)
A 2012 second round pick, Tony Renda came out of the gate on fire in his first full professional season. The speedy infielder (30 stolen bases) showed the ability to hit for contact and practice patience at the plate with a .380 OPS. Renda never hit below .332 in college at Cal-Berkeley, so that average and OPS could continue to rise. If it does, he could be a solid option for the Nats at second base and at the top of their order in 2015.
Brett Mooneyham is another standout from the Nationals' 2012 draft class. Picked in the third round, Mooneyham was sensational with a 1.94 ERA through 17 starts this year with the Suns. Mooneyham is very effective pitching to contact with a .161 opponent's batting average and just 79 strikeouts in 93 innings pitched. He struggled in three outings with Potomac after getting promoted late in the season, but the 6-foot-5 Mooneyham is certainly a name to watch next year as he progresses through the Nats system.
Brandon Miller remains a work in progress with his batting average, but showed excellent power in his first year as a pro. He was also a 2012 pick, taken in the fourth round, and led the Suns in home runs and RBI with 103 games played. He hit .270 at Samford so there isn't the expectation he'll hit .300 someday, but the power he has already shown should make him a prospect worth keeping an eye on over the next year or so.
- natsjackinfl - Sep 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Chase . How does the organizational leader in strikeouts, Robbie Ray not even get a mention? Or did I miss something?
- laddieblahblah - Sep 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM
The Nats have claimed Mauro Gomez off waivers. He is a 3rd baseman / 1st baseman with pop. Was International League POY in 2012. He's 28.
- Drew - Sep 5, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Some folks here might remember our discussion after the 2012 draft. One regular poster suggested that the Nats' draft was "Giolito or Bust." I said the Nats always seem to find a couple of future big leaguers beyond the first round.
Out of that premise came the Pick to Stick Challenge. I invited Nats Insiders to pick any player besides Giolito from the Nats' 2012 draft. I said that if your player ever reaches the majors, I'll make a donation to the Boys and Girls Club in your hometown.
I picked Brandon Miller. Others picked Tony Renda, Brett Mooneyham and catcher Spencer Kieboom.
Kieboom hasn't gone kaboom so far, but the others are advancing nicely.
If anyone wants to take Blake Schwartz as your Pick to Stick, my offer still stands.
Thanks for playing the Feud.
- Sonny G 10 - Sep 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM
I'll take Blake Schwartz.
- Drew - Sep 5, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Good deal. Good luck, Sonny.


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Should you decide to download the new client, you'll be treated to a slightly streamlined interface that's purportedly easier to manage. Instead of having separate Windows for individual IM conversations, Skype 4.0 clumps ongoing chat logs into list format - click the desired chat and it appears in the single, large Window that makes up the new interface. If you prefer the old format, a button in the upper right hand corner detaches the conversation reminiscent of the Skype version you're using now. The biggest change (physically) comes to video conferencing. Video calls are no longer tiny by default, and load up large and crisp to begin with. Improved hardware support round out the list of readily available changes, with even more to come by the time Skype 4.0 moves out of beta. Check it out for yourself and let us know what you think.
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COLUMBIA — Former Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson was drafted by the New York Jets on Thursday. Richardson was the 13th overall pick in the first round of the NFL draft.
Richardson could compete for the Jets' starting nose tackle position against the team's 2011 third-round pick, Kenrick Ellis.
Prior to the draft, SB Nation's Matthew Fairburn ranked Richardson as the second-best defensive tackle, while Dan Kadar ranked him fifth overall.
What others are saying
New York Jets fans were divided about the pick. Some fans booed their team's pick, while Gang Green Nation writer Scott Salmon was "extremely happy" and said that fans should watch Richardson's tape before deciding they don't like him.
Bleacher Report's Matt Stein said that Richardson will be a boost for the young and talented Jets defense and also said that he has athleticism, versatility and is "nimble and quick" for a player his size, 6 foot 2, 194 pounds.
"Richardson is an excellent one-gap defensive tackle; arguably the best in this draft," said the Yard Barker's Mike Nolan. He said the concern surrounding the Jets pick isn't over Richardson's talent but over the team's more urgent needs in other positions.
USA Today's Jason McIntyre was confused over the Jets decision to draft a defensive player when they don't have a pass rusher or a tight end, and said they should have traded down. "The Jets already have Kenrick Ellis, who has looked good at times, to play the middle of the 3-4. What are they doing with Richardson?" McIntyre said.
Fan and teammate reactions
Great to see @godforshort go 13th overall! Couldn't be more proud of you stud. Awesome to share that moment with your family! #MIZ
— Mitch Morse (@GimmeSumMorse65) April 26, 2013
S/O to my lil/big bro @godforshort holding it down for the "Zou"! Welcome to the league fam! Go get it!#MIZ #AnotherFirstRounder
— Sean Weatherspoon (@SeanWSpoon56) April 26, 2013
Congrats @godforshort ...13th pick in the draft. Earned it. Proud of ya, pal
— T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) April 26, 2013
@godforshort welcome to jets nation Sheldon Richardson :). Can't wait to see you put Tom Brady on his back!!!!! #jets
— debbie schlenker (@jetsjunkie) April 26, 2013
@godforshort good luck in New York enjoyed watching you at MIZZOU!!!
— Derek Mueller (@DmoneyMueller) April 26, 2013
@godforshort On behalf of #jetnation I wanna welcome you to NY! We can't wait to see you dominate, Sheldon!
— Sahal Abdi (@Sahal_Abdi) April 26, 2013
Playing history
Richardson went to Gateway Tech High School in St. Louis and was ranked the No. 4 overall recruit in 2009 by Rivals.com. He planned to play for Missouri but was academically ineligible so he went to the College of the Sequoias before transferring to Missouri for 2011 season.
He recorded 37 tackles and two sacks in a reserve role for Missouri in 2011. Despite limited playing time, Richardson was named an All-Big 12 honorable mention by the conference's coaches.
Richardson made a name for himself at the start of the SEC season in 2012 when he said that Georgia played "old-man football."
On the field, Richardson finished the season with 75 tackles, the most in the SEC for any interior defensive lineman. He had 10.5 tackles-for-loss, 4.5 sacks and three forced fumbles, earning him second-team All-SEC honors.
In November, Missouri's athletics department announcedthat Richardson would opt out of his final season of eligibility to enter the NFL draft.


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Did you know that November is Peanut Butter Lover's Month? A whole month dedicated to us PB Lovers?! How much better can you get? Maybe a PB and Chocolate Lover's month? Who knows, that may exist. There are so many food "holidays" that I have no idea about. I couldn't let this month go by and not share at least one amazing Peanut Butter recipe.
I got this recipe from Kim over at Liv Life, and it is truly amazing! You combine so many great things into one little bar. You have Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats, Peanut Butter Fudge, Rice Krispie Treats, Mini Peanut Butter Cups, and finally a layer of chocolate….Pure Heaven!! They are a little labor intensive, but so worth it! AND Ablsolutely NO Baking!!! Probably not what you will bring to Thanksgiving dinner, but these would be awesome on Friday after you get back from Black Friday shopping, and are eating that leftover turkey sandwich! Or maybe even the sugar you need to get up early enough to get all the great deals!
Do you go Black Friday Shopping? What do you shop for?
- 3 cups Rice Krispies
- ½ bag miniature marshmallows
- 2 Tbls butter
- ⅓ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 container Mini Peanut Butter cups
- 3 cups Rice Krispies
- ½ bag miniature marshmallows
- 2 Tbls butter
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 bag chocolate chips
- Spray a 13x9 pan with cooking spray.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the marshmallows, butter, and peanut butter together. Add Rice Krispies, stirring well to evenly coat. Spread evenly into the prepared pan. Set aside.
- In a large microwave safe bowl combine the butter and peanut butter. Cover with plastic wrap. Microwave for 2 minutes on high. Stir and microwave on high for 2 more minutes. Be careful when you remove from the microwave, it is very hot. Add the vanilla and powdered sugar and stir to combine. Spread over the 1st layer. Sprinkle the mini peanut butter cups over the fudge, lightly pressing down. Put in the fridge for about 1 hour to cool.
- After fudge is a little bit firm, make the second layer of Rice Krispie Treats.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the marshmallows and butter together. Add Rice Krispies, stirring well to evenly coat. Lightly press the cereal together and spread onto of the fudge layer.
- For the chocolate layer, melt the peanut butter and chocolate in the microwave, stirring ever 45 seconds. Once melted, pour over the Rice Krispie treats. Gently shake the pan to evenly distribute the melted chocolate mixture.
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Saturday, 24 October 2009
Upside Down Apricot and Pistachio Cake
Having only discovered apricots late in life, I confess . . . I am carrying on a love affair with them. Happily it's a love affair that I share with my husband . . . for he loves them too.
Call it a Culinary Menage a Trois . . .
I discovered this tasty little cake the other day in one of my newer cookbooks, Feed Me Now, by Bill Granger. I just love Bill's books and recipes. They're really down to earth and delicious. Not an ounce of pretention in the lot.
Imagine brown sugar and vanilla glazed apricots, sprinkled with some chopped pistachio nuts and topped with a cinnamony sour cream cake batter . . . and then baked until golden . . .
Turn it out onto a plate and let the syrupy sweet juices flow . . . top it with some creme fraiche and gobble it up while it's still warm.
No . . . it is not pretty. It will not be winning any beauty contests for sure . . .
But whilst it is lacking in attractiveness . . . it more than makes up for that lack in taste.
He called it a tart . . . it looks and tastes like cake to me. I added the pistachios . . . well . . . coz I happen to like nuts as much as I like apricots and, I had some that needed using up.
if you like apricots, you're going to really love this one.
We did . . . in the Rayner household, it got two sets of two thumbs up!!
*Upside Down Apricot and Pistachio Cake*
Serves 4 to 6
Printable Recipe
Deliciously glazed apricots mixed with the crunch of pistachios and topped with a wonderfully spicey and rich sour cream cake. Make sure you turn this out of the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven so that it doesn't stick. You'll want to serve this with lashings of creme fraiche or whipped cream.
100g of butter, divided
12 apricots, halved and pitted
25g raw pistachio nuts, coarsley chopped
90g soft light brown sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
125g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
115g caster sugar
130ml of sour cream
Pre-heat the oven to 200*C/400*F. Place a 24cm diameter round baking tin on top of a low flame and add 25g of the butter. Melt and then stir in the sugar and vanilla. Cook and stir until the sugar melts. Turn off the burner. Place the apricots, cut side down on top of this mixture. Sprinkle with the chopped pistachios.
Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar into a bowl. Rub in the remaining 75g of butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sour cream. Dollop this mixture over the apricots and spread it out with dampened fingers to cover.
Bake in the pre-heated oven for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and immediately invert onto a large plate. Cut into slices and serve warm with some creme fraiche spooned on top or whipped cream.
6 comments:
- Taste of Beirut said...
I believe it when you say it tastes wonderful. I love apricots and eat them all the time -the dried ones- I may try that cake with plumped-up dried ones. What do you think?
- 24 October 2009 at 05:18
- Marie said...
I'm not sure about the dried ones Beirut, but you can use tinned ones and they work fine. It's always worth a try. Let me know how you get on!
- 24 October 2009 at 05:32
- Gloria said...
Oh my God Marie!!!Only I want that arrive the summe and my apricots trees give me their fruits.
When I was a child we said "damascos" that means apricots and Mom say I told her :I wanna "cascos" because I had only 3 years, you you know Im loved them many years (je,je,).
This dessert look lovely and delicious, only I hope the apricots coming soon!!! Love it.Huggas and rest a time please! dont work so much, besoosss, gloria - 24 October 2009 at 14:47
- Julie said...
Good morning, Marie! Just found you through Gooseberry Patch--so glad I did! Your blog is simply delicious! I'm a huge lover of all things English--everything! I'm your newest follwer and will come back often to see what you're cooking! Nice to "meet" you!
- 24 October 2009 at 15:54
- Choclette said...
Never mind arty foodie photos, this looks as though it tastes fantastic.
- 24 October 2009 at 18:15
- Helene said...
This is a simple, amazing cake. Love the pics.
- 25 October 2009 at 01:42


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I've always wanted to make stuffed bell peppers but never have because I thought they would be difficult to make. So when I saw Holly's Stuffed Peppers recipe in her trim&TERRIFIC Diabetic Cooking cookbook I was ecstatic!
As with all of her recipes, they were easy to make and tasted delicious. I loved the addition of artichokes. They added a great flavor and my roommate (who doesn't like artichokes) couldn't tell they were in there. Just be careful not to microwave the bell peppers for too long or they will start to shrivel up. Check out my easy diabetic friendly recipes
Sensational Stuffed Peppers from trim&TERRIFIC Diabetic Cooking cookbook
These peppers get their punch from tasty beef, corn, rice, and artichokes. Buy peppers in assorted colors and make extras to freeze for a quick evening meal.
4 servings/serving size: 1 pepper
4 medium green (or assorted colors) bell peppers
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
3/4 pound 95% lean ground sirloin
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
1/2 cup very finely chopped canned artichokes (chop in food processor)
1 cup cooked whole grain brown rice or white rice
1/2 cup frozen corn, thawed
Salt and pepper to taste (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Slice tops off green peppers and remove core and seeds. Remove stems from tops and chop tops.
2. Arrange pepper shells on microwave-safe plate, cover with plastic wrap, and microwave 8–10 minutes or until soft.
3. In large nonstick skillet coated with nonstick cooking spray, sauté onion, garlic, and chopped peppers over medium heat 5 minutes. Add meat and cook 8 minutes or until done, stirring occasionally. Drain off excess fat.
4. Stir in remaining ingredients. Spoon mixture into pepper shells and sprinkle with cheese. Bake 15–20 minutes or until peppers are hot.
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories 236, Calories from Fat 46, Total Fat 5 g, Saturated Fat 2 g, Cholesterol 47 mg, Sodium 135 mg, Total Carbohydrate 28 g, Dietary Fiber 4 g, Sugars 6 g, Protein 22 g, Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Starch, 2 Vegetable, 2 Lean Meat